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Rob Borowski

Through the Let's Move initiative, the First Lady has challenged faith-communities and neighborhoods to establish 10,000 new community gardens or ways to access healthy food in our communities. How many will be in Texas?

The Texas Nature Challenge is an opportunity to get outside and enjoy the abundant opportunities we have in Texas to enjoy nature. Start a family nature club at your congregation, plan events for your youth groups, or just go exploring with your family and neighbors.

The goal of Texas Nature Challenge is to get families and kids outdoors by visiting as many participating parks and nature areas in Texas as they can this summer.

In Texas, less than 20% of the children that are eligible to participate in the summer food service program (SFSP), actually receive the food that they need. Read more about SFSP in Texas here. Congregations can help increase access to food for the children that need it in the summer, by providing a site for distributing food, or volunteering to assist their local summer food sponsors.

This recent research from the University of Buffalo seems to confirm what many of us have noticed about outdoor exercise--it not only improves your general fitness and burns calories, but it seems to have a long-lasting relaxing and calming effect.

The country’s obesity epidemic continues to worsen, as detailed in F as in Fat 2010: How the Obesity Crisis Threatens America’s Future. Adult obesity rates climbed in 28 states during the past year and now exceed 25 percent in more than two-thirds of the states, with rates higher among Blacks and Latinos.